Staying in line with the Extra Homepage concept – linking blog and other coverage to stories as they are posted – the NYTimes has raised the bar on coverage of big political speeches with their interactive viewer of last night’s address to a joint session of congress by President Obama.
Combining the footage with a timeline and analysis from around the web scrolling in time with the footage – this is how good analysis of this kind of event can be in almost real time. In the age of PVRs, why not wait a few hours and watch when the analysts and fact checkers can watch right along with you? Whether you watched the speech live or not, whether you twittered through it, whether you’re a policy wonk or rabid politico or not it makes for some compelling content.
Alex Churchill